Jump back Jack: 24's Season 5 DVD set includes exclusive "prequel" to Season 6
12/06/06 08:11 PM
By ED BARK
Bearded, brutalized and ultimately duped, agent Jack Bauer has endured a dispiriting off-season in China while Fox's 24 gears up for another go.
The show's fifth real-time adventure, newly available on a seven-disc set, has a seven minute, 10 second made-for-DVD prequel that begins seven months after Jack's abduction by Chinese government operatives. Without being overly specific, let's say he's very much the worse for wear after repeated electro-shock jolts. We rejoin him with one in progress. Bloodied Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) is hanging barechested with wrists shackled on high.
"He'll die before he talks," a torturer fears. At stake is the identity of an undercover Asian operative whom Jack resolutely refuses to give up.
Events then take a sudden turn after he's tossed back into his cell. It's all very dark and duplicitous, with Jack emerging more wounded than ever. We'll get back to you with further details when it's closer to the Season 6 premiere on Sunday, Jan. 14.
The Season 5 set also includes a collection of deleted scenes, only one of them of real note. The producers for some reason excised a swift kick to a crum-bum cab driver's nuts by CTU agent Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub).
Rajskub should have executed that maneuver in real-life when moderator Rush Limbaugh decided to kiss her full on the lips at a recent counter-terrorism panel. See Above the Fold's November archives if you haven't yet seen the picture.
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